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The message arrived to Kathy Wang on a notecard. She was at a sorority event as an undergraduate student, and beforehand, her fellow sisters had been encouraged to write positive messages to one another. Senders could identify themselves or not. Kathy’s card arrived anonymously. “Thank you for always finding a reason to smile.” Those nine words made her day...

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On April 24, more than 250 students, faculty, and staff gathered for the annual Belonging Awards , hosted by the Office of Belonging at Bowers in partnership with Association of Computer Science Undergraduates (ACSU), Women in Computing at Cornell (WICC), and Underrepresented Minorities in Computing (URMC). The celebration recognized individuals who have...

July 31, 2024 By Patricia Waldron Eighteen students from across the country got a crash course in computer vision, machine learning, and how to secure a research career in tech during the 2024 SoNIC Summer Research Workshop, held June 24-28 on Cornell’s Ithaca campus. SoNIC participants developed models to help people with impaired vision to identify objects...

On Feb. 17, the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science whisked away Bowers CIS students, faculty, and staff on a day trip to the Greek Peak Mountain Resort. Upon arrival, participants put on their gear and hit the slopes to go skiing, snowboarding, and tubing. From beginners to...

Cornell student developers behind GaitGuard, a wearable sensing system to aid in physical therapy, took home two awards, including third place overall, at Yale University’s 12 th annual YHack on March 29. Arsh Singh ’28, Paul Trusov ‘29, and Jimmy Mulosmani ‘29, all computer science majors, alongside Sam Rosen, a mechanical engineering student at the...

As an electrical and computer engineering (ECE) major fresh on the Cornell campus, Kaelem Bent ’27 was eager to find his community. “I had no connections,” he said. “Nobody.” Lidya Bekele ’28, a computer science major, didn’t have much networking experience. Tim Adeyemi ’27 hadn’t even planned to attend Cornell in the first place were it not for a chance...